Delaware’s Dangerous Detour: Why Bail Reform Shouldn’t Mean Mass Detention By Jeffrey J. Clayton, Executive Director, American Bail Coalition The Delaware House of Representatives is preparing to vote on a constitutional amendment (Senate Bill 11) that would replace the traditional right to bail with a system of risk-based preventative detentionRead More →
Granite State Governor Has Had Enough: Demands Repeal of 2018 Bail Law Governor Kelly Ayotte was recently asked her opinion of the 2018 New Hampshire Bail Reform Law, which, like most of the country, loosened up the reins of the pretrial liberty horse requiring less security for the release ofRead More →
Texas Public Safety Holy Trinity Moves Aggressively on Immigration and Bail Reform We might as well call them the Texas Public Safety Holy Trinity over at the Texas State Capitol. That is the fearsome threesome that is the public safety conscience of Texas: Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick,Read More →
Will Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings be the First Lawyer in a Generation to Defend Segregationist Strom Thurmond’s Preventative Detention Law before the U.S. Supreme Court? The short answer appears to be yes, as WHYY.org has reported that Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings supports the change to Delaware’s constitution, presumably meaning she has fullyRead More →
Denver Stabber a Fugitive From Justice with an Active Warrant on a PR Bond for Sex Assault at Time of Stabbings When we heard the Denver Police Chief and Mayor go down on the mall with the stabber in jail and a police presence around them declaring it safe andRead More →
Study: Eight Year Experiment Ending Cash Bail in Maryland Increased Mass Pretrial Incarceration All While Arrests Went Down and Crime Went Up In 2017, we mounted a campaign against the Maryland “end cash bail” court rule change implemented by the Maryland Court of Appeals because eliminating bail in favor ofRead More →
Bail Reform Proponents Resort to Advancing the “If You’re Scary” Test to Create an Arrest-to-Prison Pipeline In response: In Tennessee, if you’re rich and dangerous, you can buy your way out of jail Leave it to the proponents of bail reform to commence the opening salvo of a policy debateRead More →
FIXING HAWAII’S BAIL PROBLEM REQUIRES RETURN TO CORE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES Excerpt from Hawaii Free Press, published December 17, 2024 by James Waldron Lindblad, Bondsman, A-1 Bonding Hawaii Hawaii’s bail system is in need of reform — most people involved in the process agree on that. Of course, the real challenge liesRead More →
Brennan Center for Justice Dismantles a Crime Scarecrow, All in an Effort to Advocate for the End of Cash Bail in favor of Risk-Based Preventative Detention Vigorously Opposed by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. In the latest study[1] from the Brennan Center for Justice to conclude that bail reformRead More →
Georgia Governor Signs Law to Increase Number of Bail Restricted Offenses When judges are assessing bail in Georgia, they already have a list of crimes where judges have to require some security. This is what Governor Kemp refers to as “bail restricted offenses,” meaning that judges are disallowed from handingRead More →
